Yeah, that's kind of misguided. The biggest advantages of dynamic languages when doing "exploratory" programming are late binding, built-in syntax for commonly

Yeah, that's kind of misguided. The biggest advantages of dynamic languages when doing "exploratory" programming are late binding, built-in syntax for commonly used data structures and duck typing. Those allow you to scaffold a lot of stuff pretty quickly, try the bit of code that you care actually care about, and then decide from there whether you want to do a full implementation or just use the snippet you wrote. Compare that to a language like older Java, where you need to build a class no matter what, most likely you need to implement a few interfaces and add a lot of exception handling just to get the scaffolding in place, and if you want to initialize something as simple as a hash map you have to do it the painstakingly, line by line way. Sure, your prototype may (or may not, depending on how serious you were about handling those exceptions) be more solid, but it took you double the time to get there, which is basically the opposite of what prototyping should be. With all that said, and being a huge Python fan, I still feel like strongly typed languages should be a requirement for bigger projects that you plan to maintain for years. Python, as great as it is, starts hurting a lot at a larger scale. I'm really looking forward to using something like MyPy once my projects start being Python 3+ by default.